I noticed this also. I was playing last night on world 2, buying some iron knives. I look on a price guide, and think to myself "oh, iron knives...20 - 40 GP each. I'll try to get them for 30 each." When i get there, i see someone selling like 2k iron knives, which is just the amount i need. I trade him, put up my 60k, and he declines, saying "50 each you noob!" At the time, i also had mIrc open (for those who dont know, its basically a chat thingy) and i was lucky enough to find someone who, after a bit of negotioations, would sell them to me for 35 each. I ended up buyin 5k iron knives. This proves that people will buy stuff at ridiculously low prices, then jack them up to outrageously high prices. In RS1, u bought an item, and sold it for about the same price. Ahh, yes...when we still had an economy. Well... now its rotting in the ground in a coffin. What happend to the economy? why is it so unstable? My answer? Party Hats and Merchants. People just keep wanting money, so they increase the prices by like 10M each, then someone else does the same, and the process repeats. Why Jagex, why? Why did you create the evil known as Party Hats?